Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen

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#311 James Cameron 2023-07-12
#310 Walt Disney and Picasso 2023-07-04
Michael Jordan (The Life) 2023-06-30
#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful) 2023-06-26
#308 The Founder of Glock 2023-06-19
#307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada 2023-06-12
#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) 2023-06-05
#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession 2023-05-29
#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus) 2023-05-22
#303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder) 2023-05-14
#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon) 2023-05-08
#301 Tiger Woods 2023-05-01
#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds) 2023-04-24
#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful) 2023-04-17
#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell 2023-04-10
#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) 2023-04-03
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast 2023-03-29
#296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World) 2023-03-27
#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger 2023-03-21
#294 Napoleon 2023-03-13
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